If otherkin feelings were a “normal human experience” shared by most people…
* Shapeshifting movies would be as common as romantic comedies, and the shapeshifter would not be the villain.
* There would be regular documentaries on the National Geographic Channel with theories about nonhuman identity.
* Bird flight simulators, and hunting as a wolf, would be the most common video games.
* The popular attraction at fairs would be a virtual reality booth that makes you feel like you are becoming an animal.
* Species dysphoria would have been in the DSM for a long time and people would be arguing about taking it out because it’s oppressive.
* Gender surgeries and species surgeries would be at similar level of research.
* There would be “shift rooms” at parties that are marked for people to go if they get too mentally shifted to cope with the atmosphere.
* There would be many self help guides published for how to deal with your phantom wings. Doctors would prescribe you with nerve blocking drugs.
* Zoos would have special tours designed for people of a particular kintype: the avians can go and be with the flock, the wolves can talk to the zoo wolves, with a keeper watching over them/protecting them, etc.
* Most beds that are sold in stores would not be long flat things designed to fit a human body.
* There would be as many flying, running, howling songs as love songs.
* “Claw extension” would be popular in nail salons.
* Humans would not be the star of every story, and stories about how horrible it might be to be turned into something else, would not be so popular as they are.
* The people who design movies like Avatar, would not feel pressure to make their alien race “more humanlike” so the human audience can appeal to them. They would know that most people prefer a nonhuman star, so they would work to make their creatures very alien.
* Shows with talking animals would not be thought as “for kids”, and shows with talking humans, “more grown up”.
* Species would not go extinct, because there would be enough people with that species as their kintype, who would protest and protect them. If just a very small number of people had tree frog identity, for example, that is still a very small number… of 7 billion people! If a species did go extinct before the community could stop it, it would become a day of mourning for that kintype community.
* The rainforests would not be getting smaller every year, because the people in power would be too hurt by the idea of losing them, to think of selling them for greed.
* People would not laugh at lists like this! The fact that most people think we are ridiculous shows, this is not a “normal human experience” and not “something that all people do at some time in their life”.
